[23880] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Severe Response Degradation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Aitken)
Wed Apr 28 11:06:15 1999
From: Jeff Aitken <jaitken@aitken.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990428100429.A4816@noc.untraceable.net> from Andrew Brown at "Apr 28, 1999 10:04:29 am"
To: atatat@atatdot.net
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:04:46 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: dts@senie.com, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Andrew Brown writes:
> Daniel Senie writes:
> >Considering the large chunk of 24/8 they have, I can't imagine why they
> >had to use RFC 1918 addresses throughout their infrastructure. When I
> >raised issues about this (just after getting a T1 to their network),
> >they had no answers other than that since they chose an MTU of 1500
> >bytes for all their links, they didn't think path MTU discovery would be
> >an issue.
>
> well then, they're obviously clueless.
Hasn't this come up here before? I'm too lazy to go check the
archive, but I seem to remember a discussion of this topic. IIRC,
the reason/excuse given (lame or not) was that they use equipment
that does not deal well/at all with CIDR or VLSM or somesuch. Or
am I thinking of someone else?
Not that I recall it being a widely accepted reason here. :-)
--Jeff
ObRandy: Cynical response regarding people simply complaining
about that which they do not fully understand omitted.
